Guides: BLS Library Digital Book Displays: Latine Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15, 2025)

Books by BLS Alum Melissa Rivero

Our library is proud to highlight two books by BLS alumnus Melissa Rivero: The Affairs of the Falcóns: A Novel (winner of the 2019 New American Voices Award + a 2020 International Latino Book Award) & Flores and Miss Paula (a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize).

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The Affairs of the Falcóns: A Novel (1st ed. 2019)

An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018)

Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (2021)

Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question (c2019)

Brother Brontë: A Novel (2025)

Cantos De Adolescencia / Songs of Youth (1932-1937)

Published in: Recovering the U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, 2007. BLS Library has many other books in this series.

Catalina: A Novel (2024)

Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868-1945 (2024)

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (2024)

Flores and Miss Paula: A Novel (2023)

From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology (2025)

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780-1814 (c2025)

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2022)

Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 (2013)

The entry for BLS alumnus Herman Badillo begins on p. 448. Herman Badillo served as Bronx borough president and member of the U.S. Congress.

The Illustrious Impact of Luminarias on the Law: The Legal Handicraft of the First Latina Article III Judges, State Supreme Court Justices, and Public Interest Litigators

Contents: The Litigators, 1973-2023 -- Reigning Supreme, 1982-2017 -- The First Generation of Luminaria Article III Judges -- Cases and Issues of First Impression -- The Luminaria Judges on the Circuit Court of Appeals.

LatCrit: From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism (2021)

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority (2024)

The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy (2024)

Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology (2024)

Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials (2021)

My Beloved World (2013)

My Side of the River: A Memoir (2024)

Muse Found in a Colonized Body: Poems (2022)

Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá (2018)

Ordinary Injustice: Rascuache Lawyering and the Anatomy of a Criminal Case (2023)

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" (2023)

Puerto Rico: A National History (2024)

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (2022)

The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (2019)

Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice (2023)

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay (2024)

Solito: A Memoir (2023)

Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees From Central America (2019)

Take up Space: The Unprecedented AOC (c2022)

Transversal: Poems (2021)

You Dreamed of Empires (2024)

New York Public Library's Future Events & Photo Exhibit

Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month at NYPL
Excerpt from New York Public Library's description: "Discover free events for all ages, multilingual reading recommendations, research resources, and more this month and beyond!"

View this digital exhibition presented by Digital Schomburg & NuevaYorkinos:

Where Roses Grow: A Look at Rómulo Lachatañeré's Harlem [between 1947-1951]
Curators: Djali Brown-Cepeda & Ricardo Castañeda.